AWS Regions that support Storage Gateway

An AWS Region is a physical location in the world where AWS has multiple Availability Zones. Availability Zones consist of one or more discrete AWS data centers, each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity, housed in separate facilities. This means that each AWS Region is physically isolated and independent of the other Regions. Regions provide fault tolerance, stability, and resilience, and can also reduce latency. The resources that you create in one Region do not exist in any other Region unless you explicitly use a replication feature offered by an AWS service. For example, Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 support cross-Region replication. Some services, such as AWS Identity and Access Management, do not have Regional resources. You can launch AWS resources in locations that meet your business requirements. For example, you might want to launch Amazon EC2 instances to host your AWS Storage Gateway appliances in an AWS Region in Europe to be closer to your European users, or to meet legal requirements. Your AWS account determines which of the Regions supported by a specific service are available for you to use.

Amazon FSx File Gateway stores file data in the AWS Region where your Amazon FSx file system is located. Before you start deploying your gateway, choose a Region in the upper-right corner of the Storage Gateway console.